11-09-2018, 09:57 AM
(11-09-2018, 09:03 AM)Bill the Piper Wrote: What amuses me is the robustness of the American two party system. Obama discredited the Demoncrats, Trump discredited the Rapepublicans, and still no third party achieves anything. What would have to happen to break the duopoly?
I'm not clear that Obama totally discredited the Democrats. True, he did not exact revenge on the Wall Street crowd after the Bush 43 crash, he gave the Republicans a see saw flip passing Obamacare, and he didn't manage to really pass his legacy to Hillary in 2016. We are more likely to see someone like Bernie, white, male and progressive. There is no absolute need to push a minority or female candidate on the middle of the country while they are clearly not ready for it yet.
The Tea Party could steal the Republicans from the elites. The Republican base is already mad enough at their Establishment to elect Trump. They just need lots of lower candidates to get the name recognition to go after the older candidates.
We'll see.
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